Cooking appliance with a door opening device for automatically placing a door in an intermediate position and to methods of opening a door of a cooking appliance

The invention relates to a cooking appliance (1) with a door (3) for closing a cooking chamber, which in a stowage compartment (14) in a housing (2) of the cooking appliance (1) is retractable, and with a door opening device (26) for at least partially sized over a whole, between a closed and an open position of the door (3) movement path automatically moving the door (3), wherein the door opening device (26) has an actuating unit (31) with which the door (3) from the closed position into an intermediate position can be tilted automatically, wherein the intermediate position is characterized in that the further movement of the door (3) from the intermediate position into the stowage compartment (14) are retracted open position automatically by the gravity of the door (3). The invention also relates to a method for opening a door (3) of the cooking appliance (1).